7 May 2012
CCS in Norway - Mongstad technology centre officially opened
Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), on the west coast of Norway north of Bergen, was
officially opened on 7 May, in a ceremony involving the Norwegian Prime Minister and
leading figures from the CCS and energy policy communities.

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30 April 2012
IEA and Global CCS Institute release progress report concerning CCS deployment
The International Energy Agency and Global CCS Institute have released a report to the third Clean Energy Ministerial (London, 25-26 April 2012) entitled 'Tracking Progress in Carbon Capture and Storage'.

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26 April 2012
CCS in Canada - Project Pioneer demonstration project not to proceed
Following conclusion of the front end engineering and design (FEED) study, the three
industry partners involved in Project Pioneer, in the Canadian province of Alberta, have
announced that they will not proceed with the venture because of a lack of market demand
for the captured CO₂.

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3 April 2012
UK Government announces GBP1bn CCS Commercialisation Programme and CCS Roadmap
On 03 April, UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey launched a new CCS Commercialisation Programme, including GBP 1 billion of capital funding to support commercial-scale CCS with a view to enabling commercial deployment 'in the 2020s'.

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16 March 2012
UK National Audit office releases report on first CCS demonstration competition
The United Kingdom National Audit Office has released a report entitled 'Carbon capture and storage: lessons from the competition for the first UK demonstration'.

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12 March 2012
Canadian Government releases Environmental Screening Report for Alberta CCS project
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has released an 'Environmental Screening Report' for the Shell Canada Ltd.

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6 March 2012
Scottish Government releases revised draft Electricity Generation Policy Statement
Acting in accordance with Section 35 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, the Scottish Government has released a draft revision of its Electricity Generation Policy Statement.

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1 March 2012
Commission adopts its first opinion on a draft permit for the permanent storage of CO2
Acting in accordance with Article 10 of the CCS Directive, the European Commission adopted on 28 Februrary 2012 its first non-binding opinion on a draft permit for the permanent storage of CO₂.

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8 February 2012
New report examines barriers to CCS deployment in Australia
The Grattan Institute has released a report entitled 'No easy choices: which way to Australia's energy future?'.

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30 January 2012
IEA releases policy strategy for CCS
The International Energy Agency has released an information paper entitled 'A Policy Strategy for Carbon Capture and Storage', which is introduced on the Agency's website as follows:

Successful deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critically dependent on comprehensive policy support.

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17 December 2011
New report examines permitting process for CCS
The Global CCS Institute has published a special report that evaluates the permitting process associated with a large CCS demonstration project based in the Netherlands.

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16 December 2011
UK Government announces new phase of CCS programme
On 16 December, the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) convened a CCS Industry Day to launch a new phase in its CCS programme, following the withdrawal of the Longannet demonstration project in October.

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9 December 2011
CCS gains CDM eligibility at COP17
The CMP has today adopted the draft modalities and procedures for CCS, enabling CCS projects to be eligible under the CDM.

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7 December 2011
ISO to develop CCS standard
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has formed a technical committee to develop a CCS-related standard.

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What's New

3 April 2012
Legal Resources Update - A new page has been added that discusses key features of the EU Environmental Liability Directive and their implications for CCS.

10 February 2012
Legal Resources Update - A new page has been added that analyses recent developments concerning the recognition of CCS projects under the Clean Development Mechanism.

29 November 2011
Legal Resources Update - New pages have been added with summaries and analysis of Guidance Documents 3 and 4 published by the European Commission on the CCS Directive. The pages are also available for download as a pdf.

7 November 2011
EU Case Studies reports launched at the CCLP workshop on the implementation of the CCS Directive - The CCLP has launched 5 reports discussing the issues associated with the implementation of the CO₂ storage directive in selected European jurisdictions (UK, Germany, Romania, Spain and Norway)

1 September 2011
New Research Pages - A new page has been added detailing the CCLP's work on the transposition of the EU CCS Directive.

7 July 2011
Legal Resources Update - A new page has been added with information and analysis on the legal requirements for CCS projects in offshore Australia.

17 June 2011
Publications - A new Think Piece by Philip Marston entitled, "From EOR to E²R: Sequestering CO₂ while reducing dependence on imported oil" is now available.

3 June 2011
Legal Resources Update - A new page has been added to provide information about the progress of select EU member states towards transposing the EU CCS Directive into national law.

31 May 2011
Legal Resources Update - A *new* page on Property Rights for CCS has been added to the legal resources section. Watch for jurisdiction-specific property rights pages to be added in the near future.

5 May 2011
Legal Resources Update - The dedicated legislation pages have been updated to reflect the new tenure regulation passed in Alberta, Canada.

17 April 2012
Alberta Regulatory Framework Assessment (RFA) Working Group meeting
CCLP Visiting Fellow Chris Clarke attended the 11th meeting of the Regulatory Working
Group of Alberta?s Regulatory Framework Assessment (RFA) process, held in Calgary
on 17-18 April.

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21 March 2012
Richard Macrory and Chiara Armeni speak at IEA CCS Web Conference
Professor Richard Macrory and Chiara Armeni presented key findings of the CCLP EU Case Studies Project at a web conference hosted in Paris on 21 March by the International Energy Agency.

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28 February 2012
Chris Clarke attends the 6th Annual Platts European Carbon Capture and Storage Conference
Chris Clarke, CCLP Visiting Fellow, attended the 6th Annual Platts European Carbon Capture and Storage conference, in London on 27-28 February 2012.

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14 February 2012
Blog on state of CCS regulation in Europe by Chiara Armeni
A new blog by Chiara Armeni has been published on the Global CCS Institute website entitled 'An Update on the State of CCS Regulation from Europe'.

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8 February 2012
Ben Milligan joins CCLP
CCLP has been joined by Ben Milligan, who was previously based at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong. Ben's research and publications focus on oceans policy and related aspects of public international law. He will contribute to CCLP research concerning offshore carbon sequestration and update content on the Centre's website.

19 December 2011
CCS Programme: Industry Day
On 16 December CCLP Visiting Fellow, Chris Clarke, attended the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change's "CCS Programme: Industry Day".

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1 December 2011
CCLP featured in Platts Power in Europe
Platts Power in Europe report has published a contribution from CCLP Visiting Fellow, Chris Clarke, on the topic of the CCLP's recent workshop on the implementation of the EU CCS Directive.

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17 May 2011
CCSA Public Perception Workshop
Visiting Fellow, Chris Clarke, and Alexandra Malone participated in a workshop held by the Carbon Capture and Storage Association on the topic of public perception. The event followed on a similar workshop held last year and included attendees from industry, governments and academia.

12 May 2011
CCS Rotterdam 2011
Chiara Armeni and Alexandra Malone attended the CCS Rotterdam events on May 9-11, 2011. The first day was the Global CCS Institute members' meeting, which brought together major CCS stakeholders from around the world. The second day was the European CCS Demonstration Project Network's inaugural knowledge dissemination event, "A Year of Knowledge Sharing: Sowing the First Seeds."

10 May 2011
GCCSI blog contribution
Richard Macrory has written a blog entry for the Global CCS Institute site, entitled 12 months in CCS Legislation: A period of consolidation and reflection

15 February 2011
CCLP book on CCS Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues now available for pre-order
Carbon Capture and Storage: Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues, edited by Richard Macrory and Ian Havercroft (CCLP) and Richard B Stewart (NYU), is a book based on the presentations given at the 2010 Global Legal Symposium held in New York. It brings together some of the world's leading practitioners and scholars working in the field of CCS to provide a critical assessment of progress to date. For more details and to pre-order the book, visit the Hart Publishing website.

1 February 2011
New addition to the CCLP team
The CCLP is pleased to welcome Alexandra Malone to the research team. Alexandra has a strong background in CCS legal and regulatory issues from her professional experience as a CCS Policy Advisor with the Government of Canada.

10 January 2011
CCLP launches new case study projects
In 2011-2012, the CCLP will carry out two major case studies - one on the implementation of the EU CCS Directive in selected EU Member States and a second on the development of a legal and policy framework for CCS in a developing country.

The EU Case Studies Project aims to critically analyse the implementation of the CCS Directive in UK, Germany and Poland. The Developing Country study is aimed at identifying the challenges developing countries could face in designing CCS legislation and what legal and policy solutions are being envisaged. South Africa has been chosen for this study, due to its sofisticated environmental law tradition and its interest in CCS.

Both studies will be carried out with the support of partners in the chosen countries. Final reports for the EU and Developing Country projects are expeted in Autumn 2011 and Spring 2012, respectively.

29 November 2010
CCLP Supper Discussion
On 29 November 2010, the CCLP hosted a dinner at the Athenaeum for our donors and other CCS stakeholders from industry, academia and the government. The discussion centered around funding for CCS, both for the demonstration programme and the options available for ensuring the long-term development of the technology.

1 October 2010
International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies, Amsterdam 19-23 September 2010
Ian Havercroft, lead researcher at the CCLP, attended GHGT-10 in Amsterdam. He presented a paper with Brendan Beck from the International Energy Agency on the 'Development and distribution of the IEA Model CCS Legal & Regulatory Framework' as part of the legal and regulatory issues session.

28 July 2010
CCLP Review for 2009-10 now available
The Review for 2009-10 outlines some of the activities and achievements of the CCLP over the past year and is now available on the About the CCLP page

15 June 2010
Book on the global regulation of CCS in preparation
The CCLP is currently editing papers for a book based on the presentations given at the Global Legal Symposium held in New York earlier this year.

29 March 2010
Global Legal Symposium on CCS: Materials available
On the 15-16th March the CCLP, in association with New York University School of Law and the Global CCS Institute, held a Global Legal Symposium on CCS at New York University.
The materials from this event are now available via the link below and include updated abstracts and speaker's presentations.
It is anticipated that an audio recording of this event will be made available through this website in the near future.

Project News

24 March 2010
CCLP at New York University
On the 15-16th March the CCLP in association with New York University School of Law and the Global CCS Institute held a Global Symposium on CCS at New York University. Professor Richard Macrory, Director of the CCLP, and Professor Richard Stewart from NYU School of Law, Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, discuss the legal and policy issues raised by the event in a podcast recorded by New York University. The podcast can be accessed through the link below.
Richard Stewart and Richard Macrory discuss the Global Legal Symposium on CCS

20 January 2010
Second IEA International CCS Regulators' Network Meeting
Ian Havercroft, the CCLP's lead Researcher, actively participated in the second meeting of the IEA International CCS Regulators' Network , which was held in Paris on the 20th and 21st of January 2010. This meeting provided the opportunity to analyse and discuss the work undertaken thus far by the Regulators' Network, as well as CCS legal and regulatory developments in Europe, North America, and Australia. A dedicated session addressed 'CCS Legal & Regulatory Developments in Key Developing Regions' by providing case-studies from South Africa, Brazil, China and Indonesia. An overview of the IEA CCS Model Legal and Regulatory Framework initiative was also discussed during this meeting.

IEA dedicated webpage

19 January 2010
Environmental Impacts Assessment for Carbon Storage
This event was held on the 12-13 January 2010 at the UK Embassy in Japan. Ian Havercroft, the CCLP lead researcher was invited to speak by the UK Foreign Office on the topic of contemporary legal issues for CCS and the development of a global regulatory framework.

British Embassy website

14 January 2010
Webconference on the CCS Outcome of Copenhagen
Following the outcome of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the IEA hosted this webinar with the aim of discussing the implications of this round of negotiations upon CCS development.
During the webinar, the discussion related to the status of the negotiations with respect to the eligibility of CCS activities under the Clean Development Mechanism (Tim Dixon-IEA) and to the impact of Copenhagen upon Annex I countries (Bruce Wilson - DRET Australia), non-Annex I countries and G-77 (Lobo Balia - MEMR Indonesia), and business and industry (Luke Warren - CCSA) in the context of CCS activities. The debate concerning CCS under the Long -Term Cooperative Action process was also analysed (Stig Sveenningsen - NPE Norway).

IEA website

14 January 2010
Seventh Annual EOR Carbon Management Workshop
Ian Havercroft, the CCLP's Lead Researcher, was invited by the British High Commission to speak at this event in Houston, Texas USA. The Seminar examined Texan and UK perspectives on CCS and the underpinning science, technology and legislation. Ian Havercroft gave a presentation regarding the European storage Directive and emissions trading legislation.

Carbon Management Workshop website